592 Sir Gr. F. Hampson on new 



narrow, oblique, angled inwards on median nervure, some 

 blackish suffusion in the cell before and between the stig- 

 mata ; an indistinct sinuous black line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, black 

 rilled in with whitish, oblique to vein 6, then minutely 

 waved, more strongly incurved just below vein 2, the costal 

 area beyond it suffused with blackish and with some whitish 

 points on the costa; subterminal line whitish denned on 

 inner side by dentate black marks, angled outwards to 

 termen at veins 7, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown. 



Hab. N. Nigeria, Minna (Macfie), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 28 mm. 



1431 d. Hadena leucoceps, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and tegulae white with some brown hairs ; 

 antennae black, ringed with white towards base; palpi and 

 sides of irons black-brown ; thorax black-brown with 

 oblique white stripes on patagia ; pectus white, brown in 

 front; tibiae and tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 

 white dorsally suffused with brown, the anal tuft brown and 

 white. Fore wing dark blue-grey; a curved white subbasal 

 striga from costa defined on each side by black and an 

 oblique white striga below the cell defined on inner side by 

 black and with black patch beyond it ; some white at base 

 of inner margin ; antemedial line white, interrupted below 

 costa and at median nervure, defined on outer side by black 

 at costa, retracted in cell, excurved below vein 1 and re- 

 tracted as a white streak on inner margin defined above by 

 black ; medial area with the submediau interspace black, 

 the claviform represented by a large clavate white patch at 

 its extremity ; orbicular and reniform white irrorated with 

 fuscous, large, the former rather quadrate, the latter angled 

 inwards on median nervure to the former, the cell before 

 and between them black ; postmedial line with white spot 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, with white 

 striae above and below vein 6, a white striga in suhmedian 

 interspace and outwardly oblique white striga defined on 

 inner side by black at inner margin, some white points 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by white 

 points on diffused black marks from below costa to vein 5, 

 obliquely curved below vein 7, and a white striga on dif- 

 fused black between veins 3 and 1 ; a terminal scries of 

 slight blackish points; cilia chequered white and brown. 

 Hind wing pure white, the veins and termen suffused with 

 fuscous; cilia with a maculate fuscous line through them; 



